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The National Research Foundation (NRF) is responsible for the management of the DST-NRF Internship Programme in which unemployed Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) graduates and postgraduates are offered an opportunity to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure ...

To be successful at innovation is not easy. It requires recognition of a need and identification of a solution. After that, it needs development of the solution to the point where it is ready for widespread use, communication of the attractions of the solution compared to other solutions and so ...

AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER (ABC)
ABC AGBIZ CONGRESS 2012
Investing in the future
The ABC Agbiz Congress 2012 takes place from 5 - 6 June 2012 at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg.
It is a biennial agribusiness congress that ...

In this now very much connected and social media overrun world, we find ourselves able to access worldwide expertise in seconds. We can see what our customers are saying about us to their friends and family and we can usually see what our competitors are up to quite quickly. Therefore it is my ...

On 27 August 2010, SAINe held their first Biennial General Meeting where the 2011/2012 Steering Committee was elected and the SAINe Constitution was adopted.
The new Steering Committee consists of:
1. Adrienne Viljoen (SABS Design Institute)
2. Pieter Nortje (ESKOM)
3. Isaiah ...

The 2010 State of the Future report has been released and is available to interested parties at a cost of R375 per book. Among the regular sections in the ninety page State of the Future report are the annually updated analyses of the fifteen key global challenges, as well as the ...

Well firstly, a great idea is simply not good enough to get money! In order to get money you need to unpack way more than your idea to a provider of capital.
One of the greatest challenges facing South Africa is the rejuvenation of its business environment. The greatest hurdle in this ...

The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project is probing the relationship between national copyright environments and access to learning materials in African countries. The project is probing this relationship within an access to knowledge (A2K) framework - a framework which ...

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.
Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of ...

by Rishab Rao and Jac Spies
Innovation Practitioners at BMGI South Africa
Abstract
What do our customers really want? Who are the customers we should concern ourselves with? How do we get the right voice of the customer? Do our customers really know what they want? Have these questions ...